News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― Two defendants who engaged in a fraudulent financing scheme involving the offer and sale of investments in four Las Vegas companies were sentenced to 3½ and four years in federal prison, respectively, for defrauding approximately 125 investors of about $6.6 million, including some victims who lost some or all of their retirement or college savings funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the U.S. Department of Justice has authorized the return of $10,129,254.56 to victims of the Traders International Return Network (TIRN) fraud. Operators of TIRN deceived investors by making claims that investments in TIRN...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement on the retirement of Chairman Doc Hastings...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang (ABT) have pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to their membership in the ABT’s criminal enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A jury has found a Paxton, Ill., man, Eddi Ramirez, 32, guilty of running a cocaine trafficking network that regularly distributed large quantities of cocaine throughout central Illinois including Decatur, Springfield and Champaign. The jury deliberated approximately one and one-half hours yesterday afternoon before finding Ramirez, aka "Migo," guilty of conspiring with others to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Feb. 12, JABARI PETERSON, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: RAFAEL DOBARD, age 39, and QUINCY JONES, age 33, both New Orleans Police Department (“NOPD") narcotics detectives, pled guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown, to conspiracy to commit theft from programs receiving federal funds and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. Judge Brown set sentencing of both defendants on June 19, 2014 at 10:00 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A former carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, who pleaded guilty in October 2013 to one count of possession of stolen mail, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Fort Worth, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Cheryl Reed Johnson aka Shawnee Reed and Cheryl Reed, Carey Jermaine Johnson aka Jermaine Johnson, and Tarmera Renee Wyckoff aka Toni Wyckoff, are charged in a 23-count indictment alleging conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to make false claims to the Internal Revenue Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Viwathna Bhuthimethee, 68, a medical doctor who operated the Walk In Clinic, located at 654 East Broadway Street in Alton, Illinois, pled guilty today in federal court to the fifteen counts of an indictment which charged health care fraud against the Illinois Medicaid program and illegal distribution...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Comprehensive Management Plan will provide access and protect Merced River resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Feb. 12, Jabari Peterson, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking crack cocaine and oxycodone pills.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking information regarding vandalism to a Native American rock art panel located on public lands in the Paradox Valley of western Colorado. The vandalism occurred on or around Jan. 1, 2014. The vandals carved “AFS," “SDT" and “Happy New Year’s 2014" into the rock panel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI, OHIO - Shannon Bradley, 36, of Leesburg, Ohio, was sentenced to 41 months in prison and his brother, Christopher Bradley, 39, of Blanchester, Ohio...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Daniel M. Layne, 33, of Houston, has been convicted of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: Celebrate California Arbor Week by attending a special presentation by guest speakers Timmy Womick and Chad Brey of TreeCircus on Sunday, March 9, at 1 PM at the John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) in Martinez, CA. Womick and Brey’s hour-long program, “What Did John Muir Teach Us?", is the first in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: To Pay Lower Premiums, Defendant Deceived Automobile Insurance Companies By Lying About Location And Use Of Livery Vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 14, 2014, Cesar Alexis Gonzalez, age 29, was sentenced by United States District Judge John A. Jarvey to 168 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute at least 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine and 50 grams of actual methamphetamine, announced...
